Two weeks after its first batch, on May 22, 2026, the Pentagon posted a second set of UFO files to war.gov/UFO: 64 files, including 51 videos, seven audio files and six PDFs. Many of the videos were among those House lawmakers had requested in March, located by the Pentagon’s UAP office. The Pentagon noted that many of the materials lack a substantiated chain of custody.

Most of the footage is grainy infrared video from military aircraft and sensors, much of it from 2018 to 2023 in the Middle East, including the Persian Gulf. The most talked-about clip appears to show an F-16 shooting down an unidentified object over Lake Huron in February 2023, days after the Chinese spy balloon crossed the U.S. Later reporting suggested that object may have been a hobbyist balloon. A 2022 video shows spherical objects moving in and out of the water near a submarine.

Another file is an account by a currently serving senior intelligence officer who said that in late 2025, aboard a military helicopter, he saw countless orange orbs swarming in all directions, including two large ones that flared near the aircraft. He wrote that the crew was left virtually speechless.

The batch also included a 116-page file on sightings near Sandia Base, New Mexico, from 1948 to 1950, a 1973 CIA report, Energy Department imagery from the Pantex nuclear weapons plant, and Mercury and Apollo audio of astronauts describing “fireflies,” which NASA later traced to frozen condensation. The Pentagon said the site had passed a billion hits.